Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
If you are asking what position he held before being elected president, he was elected a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and in 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Barack Obama served in the Illinois state legislature for three terms, and then was elected to the US Senate in 2004.
He was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there until 2004. At that time, he was elected a United States Senator, a position he held until he ran for president.
President Obama was the US senator from Illinois when he was elected President. Before that he was in the Illinois legislature and worked as a lawyer.
Barack Obama was junior senator from Illinois. He was elected to the position in 2006 and so took office in 2007.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
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Obama was the junior U.S. senator from Illinois before he was elected to the presidency.
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Barack Obama was the junior U.S. senator from Illinois before he was elected the 44th president.
This question was asked before the 2008 election. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama did in fact get elected America's 44th president. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.
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